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Could Anyone Be Stupid
Enough To Believe That The Hotel Wants Them To Break The Room
Window With The Toilet Tank?
Yes. And
they also broke through the wall believing they had to rescue
the guy in the next room. But alas, there is no rescue
from stupidity.
Would you believe that anyone could be stupid enough to believe a
caller, claiming to be a hotel staff member, who says that smashing the
window with the toilet tank is the only way to avoid death from a gas
leak? And who says you must smash the mirror
and break a hole in the wall because the man next door needs
to be rescued?
If not, please meet Mark and Lisa Kantoriski who did some $10,000
damage to their Hilton Garden Inn room in Orlando Florida, after
following the caller's instructions.
What
were they thinking?
"When I broke the window, I got suspicious. It didn't seem
right, but she (Lisa) was panicking, so I continued."
There. That's what they were thinking..
The police said the couple cannot be arrested because the two believed
they were responding to an emergency. Or to put it another way,
there's no law against stupidity.
This is but the latest in a string of damage instigated by
prank callers in the US. We reported a case of some $50,000
damage done by a hotel clerk who was told that completely destroying
the lobby and breaking the sprinkler head was the only way to keep the
sprinkler system from activating. See it here.
The article cites other cases, like the Arkansas motel
employee who did $50K damage to "test" the emergency alarms.
NEWS.co.au (Australia) 9-Jul-09
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